The burden lies on all of us irrespective of where we send our children.
BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA: This refers to Zarrar Khuhro’s article of February 29 titled “So who is Ibn-e-Batuta?”.
The burden lies on all of us irrespective of where we send our children. It’s not just about the so-called ‘elite schools’ but every school needs a good history book that allows students to critically engage with ‘our’ history. The problem, however, is that the moment you try to teach our history it becomes an un-Islamic act and against the two-nation theory. We need history books that teach us how to embrace our past and acknowledge that we as human race have lived here longer than Muhammad Bin Qasim’s arrival. And the consequence of all of this is that we end up teaching European History.
Munir Saeed
Published in The Express Tribune, March 1st, 2012.
